Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Qari'ah Verse 11

Mufti Taqi Usmani

A blazing Fire!

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

˹It is˺ a scorching Fire.

Ruwwad Translation Center

It is a Blazing Fire.

A. J. Arberry

A blazing Fire!

Abdul Haleem

a blazing fire.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

A Fire vehemently hot!

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

(It is) a Fire Blazing fiercely!

Abul Ala Maududi

A Blazing Fire!

Ahmed Ali

It is the scorching fire.

Ahmed Raza Khan

A flaming fire!

Ali Quli Qarai

It is a scorching fire!

Ali Ünal

It is a fire burning fiercely.

Amatul Rahman Omar

It is a blazing Fire (for burning out all the dross that people collect by leading a sinful life in this world).

English Literal

(A) hot fire.476

Faridul Haque

A flaming fire!

Hamid S. Aziz

A raging fire!

Hilali & Khan

(It is) a hot blazing Fire!

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Abundance diverts you,

Mohammad Habib Shakir

A burning fire.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Raging Fire.

Muhammad Sarwar

It is a burning Fire.

Qaribullah & Darwish

(It is) a Fire which is extremely hot.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

A fire Hamiyah!

Wahiduddin Khan

It is a blazing fire.

Talal Itani

A Raging Fire.

Tafsir jalalayn

It is; A scorching fire, of extremely hot temperature (the h' of hiya is for [consonantal] quiescence, and is retained when reciting without a [subsequent] pause or with; some omit it when reciting without a pause). Meccan, consisting of 8 verses.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

A fire Hamiyah!

meaning, extreme heat. It is a heat that is accompanied by a strong flame and fire.

It is narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet said,

نَارُ بَنِي ادَمَ الَّتِي تُوقِدُونَ جُزْءٌ مِنْ سَبْعِينَ جُزْءًا مِنْ نَارِ جَهَنَّم

The fire of the Children of Adam that you all kindle is one part of the seventy parts of the fire of Hell.

They (the Companions) said, "O Messenger of Allah! Isn't it sufficient"

He replied,

إِنَّهَا فُضِّلَتْ عَلَيْهَا بِتِسْعَةٍ وَسِتِّينَ جُزْءًا

It is more than it by sixty-nine times.

This has been recorded by Al-Bukhari and Muslim. In some of the wordings he stated,

إِنَّهَا فُضِّلَتْ عَلَيْهَا بِتِسْعَةٍ وَسِتِّينَ جُزْءًا كُلُّهُنَّ مِثْلُ حَرِّهَا

It is more than it by sixty-nine times, each of them is like the heat of it.

It has been narrated in a Hadith that Imam Ahmad recorded from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet said,

إِنَّ أَهْوَنَ أَهْلِ النَّارِ عَذَابًا مَنْ لَهُ نَعْلَنِ يَغْلِي مِنْهُمَا دِمَاغُه

Verily, the person who will receive the lightest torment of the people of the Hellfire will be a man who will have two sandals that will cause his brain to boil.'

It has been confirmed in the Two Sahihs that the Messenger of Allah said,

اشْتَكَتِ النَّارُ إِلَى رَبِّهَا فَقَالَتْ


يَا رَبِّ أَكَلَ بَعْضِي بَعْضًا


فَأَذِنَ لَهَا بِنَفَسَيْنِ


نَفَسٍ فِي الشِّتَاءِ وَنَفَسٍ فِي الصَّيْفِ


فَأَشَدُّ مَا تَجِدُونَ فِي الشِّتَاءِ مِنْ بَرْدِهَا وَأَشَدُّ مَا تَجِدُونَ فِي الصَّيْفِ مِنْ حَرِّهَا

The Hellfire complained to its Lord and said,

"O Lord! Some parts of me devour other parts of me."

So He (Allah) permitted it to take two breaths;

- one breath in the winter and

- one breath in the summer.

Thus, the most severe cold that you experience in the winter is from its cold, and the most severe heat that you experience in the summer is from its heat.

In the Two Sahihs it is recorded that he said,

إِذَا اشْتَدَّ الْحَرُّ فَأَبْرِدُوا عَنِ الصَّلَةِ فَإِنَّ شِدَّةَ الْحَرِّ مِنْ فَيْحِ جَهَنَّم

When the heat becomes intense pray the prayer when it cools down, for indeed the intense heat is from the breath of Hell.

This is the end of the Tafsir of Surah Al-Qari`ah, and all praise and thanks are due to Allah